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title: The Moon's gravity also tugs the oceans into bulges, so the sea goes… — Phases, eclipses and tides · tree and pragmatics
description: The Moon's gravity also tugs the oceans into bulges, so the sea goes in and out twice a day, and at new and full Moon the Sun helps pull to make the biggest spring tides. Who acts: gravity, sea, Sun. A sentence of the lesson «Phases, eclipses and tides» of the space course of Mova's primary school w
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# Phases, eclipses and tides, sentence 3

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The Moon's gravity also tugs the oceans into bulges, so the sea goes in and out twice a day, and at new and full Moon the Sun helps pull to make the biggest spring tides.

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**Who acts:** gravity, sea, Sun · **What happens:** tug, go, help, pull, make · **To what, where:** oceans, bulges, new Moon, biggest spring tides

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Phases, eclipses and tides» of the space course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gravity, sea, Sun), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:space:007-phases-eclipses-and-tides.lesson:3
# text = The Moon's gravity also tugs the oceans into bulges, so the sea goes in and out twice a day, and at new and full Moon the Sun helps pull to make the biggest spring tides.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = space
# lesson = 007-phases-eclipses-and-tides.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Moon	Moon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	gravity	gravity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	also	also	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	tugs	tug	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	oceans	ocean	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	into	into	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	bulges	bulge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
16	in	in	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	out	out	ADV	RB	_	16	conj	_	_
19	twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	15	advmod	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl:unmarked	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
24	at	at	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
25	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	conj	_	_
28	Moon	Moon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
31	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
32	pull	pull	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	xcomp	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	advcl	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
36	biggest	big	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	38	amod	_	_
37	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	tides	tide	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obj	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tug** | present | the Moon's gravity | the oceans |  | bulges |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent ocean=Patient |
| 2 | **go** | present | the sea |  |  |  | day | twice *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **help** | present | the Sun |  |  | new Moon |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **pull** | infinitive | the Sun *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **make** | to-infinitive | the Sun *not said here* | the biggest spring tides |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset tide=Product |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:space:007-phases-eclipses-and-tides.lesson:3`.

**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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